Employment in coal extraction is also an interesting graph. Although a lot of it has dropped due to mechanization over the generations (like, from ~1910 on dow

Employment in coal extraction is also an interesting graph. Although a lot of it has dropped due to mechanization over the generations (like, from ~1910 on downwards) it's still pretty clear that the old heights of job-creation people might remember with nostalgia are never[0] coming back. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES1021210001 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES1021210001 [0] Barring a discovery that coal can be converted into the elixir of youth, etc.